Chapter 812: Luoyang Offensive and Defensive Battle (Medium)

"Target: Chengtou, put!"

The tactics of the two Yue Wang armies were extremely sophisticated, and they soon arrived at the sortie position, but under the order of Li Su, who was in charge of covering, dozens of trebuchets and large ballistas that had been prepared were fired one after another, and huge stone projectiles and thick iron arrows roared through the sky, smashing towards the city like a thunderbolt on a sunny day.

"Target: Enemy trebuchet position, put!"

Of course, the trebuchet is not only the Yue Wang army, but also the defenders of the city, not only have, there are a lot of them, not to mention anything else, when the Hexi army was still weak, it was by relying on these mechanical devices that were regarded as strange / obscene tricks by the children of authentic Confucianism to defeat the powerful Tubo army, although later artillery was born, replacing the cumbersome and inefficient trebuchet, but the Hexi army in the trebuchet construction ability is still there, a group of East Palace guards are the old men of the Hexi army, these days of Zhang Luo, Since a lot of large trebuchets have been built a long time ago, how could they sit back and watch the Yue Wang army indiscriminately, almost at the same time as Li Su on the other side of the Yue Wang army gave the shooting order, the newly promoted lieutenant Fang Xiaoshan, who was in charge of commanding the trebuchet position operation, also roared and gave the order to shoot, in an instant, the various types of trebuchets arranged in the city head and behind the city wall started one after another, and more than 150 huge stone bullets roared out, covering the sky and the sun and smashing towards the trebuchet position of the Yue Wang army, and the prestige was obviously several times stronger than that of the Yue Wang army.

"Boom, boom......"

The dark clouds composed of two stone bullets staggered in the air, and several stone bullets slammed together, and instantly exploded into a rain of rubble, but most of the stone bullets were unhindered, and rushed to their respective targets, and in an instant, they stirred up a miserable howl in the city and under the city, and the rubble was splashed everywhere, and the flesh and blood flew sideways, and its shape was really terrifying.

"Release, release!"

Although the power of the large trebuchet made by the Yue Wang army is not small, compared with the defenders, the number is not only less, the range is also short, can only barely bombard the defenders on the city wall, for the large trebuchet that is cowering in the rear of the urn city, but there is nothing to be done, moreover, the defenders have already adjusted the shooting scale, and the quasi-head is also much stronger than the Yue Wang army, the first round of the contest between the two sides, the defenders only one trebuchet was completely destroyed, two were bruised, but it did not affect the battle, On the other hand, the Yue Wang's army was unlucky, not to mention the destruction of four trebuchets, and many soldiers who stayed in the starting position were affected by the artillery fire of the defenders, and more than 200 people were killed and wounded.

"Reclamation truck, get on!"

Projectile, then projectile, after the trebuchets on both sides bombarded a few back and forth, the Yue Wang army was completely at a disadvantage, not only failed to achieve the purpose of suppressing the defenders of the city, but was smashed by the defenders to a mess, seeing that the suppression was hopeless, Gan Zhuangwu, who was responsible for the first round of storming the city, was already the boss's impatience, and did not want to wait any longer, so he gave the order to attack with a black face!

"Knock Knock ......"

At the same time, two groups of 1,500 cavalry each began to press forward slowly, apparently intending to cover the offensive of their own river-filling troops with cavalry shooting.

Decent and nothing outstanding!

Although the siege has just begun, Li Xian, who has seen Li Zhen's formation, is not only not nervous, but relaxed, not for anything else, just because Li Xian has understood Li Zhen's entire strategic thinking, which is nothing more than relying on the superiority of troops to launch wave after wave of strong attacks, although there is nothing wrong, but there is nothing surprising about the magic, it seems that even if this offensive is stronger, the defenders can easily deal with it, obviously, Li Xian's guess before the war is really right, Li Zhen is really a rookie who has never been in battle, he will just copy the regulations, like such an opponent, there is really not much pressure to win, in view of this, Li Xian is too lazy to think more, simply handed over the command authority to Zhang Mingwu's hands, he just stood silently at the city gate, so as to watch the battle for a long time.

"Stand on the shield!"

Zhang Mingwu became famous in a battle that relied on defense, when in Hexi, with less than 2,000 troops, he blocked the attack of tens of thousands of troops in Tubo and held the small city of Caohan, thus gaining valuable time for Li Xian to mobilize various troops and horses.

"Shoot the arrows, release the arrows!"

The cavalry of the two Yue Wang army rushed very fast, but in a moment the kung fu was already leaping to the moat, but listening to the two roars in the cavalry array, the two cavalry went back and forth, constantly splashing the rain of arrows to the city, the momentum was not small, but it was difficult to help the defender's shield array, in addition to shooting the shield array crackling, there was no commendable result, but it seemed to suppress the defenders, and created a great fighter for the smooth advancement of their own river filling vehicles.

"It is said that Li Xian'er is good at fighting, and it is not good to look at it alone, hey, it's just a waste of fame!"

Seeing that his river-filling troops were progressing smoothly and were already approaching the moat, and the defenders did not have the slightest counterattack, Li Zhen of the Central Military Department couldn't help but be very proud, smiling and brushing the long beard on his chest, shaking his head and degrading Li Xian.

"Father Wang Shengming, that little boy just won a few battles by luck, but his ability is not enough, how can he be able to defeat the might of my army of more than 100,000, and the city is just around the corner!"

"The prince said well, today will be able to break through the city, and this life is a big thing!"

"That's true, after entering the city, I'll wait for a drunk!"

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Seeing Li Zhen so happy, Li Chong and many other generals around the side were so happy that they were crazy about their stinky feet, but Chen Wushuang was not happy, and opened his mouth full of sorrow, as if he wanted to speak, but at the end, he still didn't say that he would come out, not for anything else, just because since the start of the army, Li Zhen seemed to be a different person, and he was very stubborn, and he couldn't listen to anyone's words.

"Shoot!"

Li Zhen was obviously happy too early, Zhang Mingwu was incompetent, he had already taken advantage of the cover of the shield array and quietly arranged a trap, until the river-filling troops of the Yue Wang army approached the moat, but when Zhang Mingwu roared, the originally tightly knit shield array suddenly opened a gap, revealing two hundred and fifty Donggong guards who were densely arranged.

"Whoosh ......"

The chain crossbow in the hands of the guards of the East Palace is ten steel arrows, under such intensive shooting, two thousand five hundred steel arrows have been shot into the queue of the unprepared Yue Wang army like a dark cloud, and in an instant, the people of the cart were shot to hundreds of people, and the rest were frightened, how dare they stand in place, they all fled back in a panic, no matter how the supervising team slashed and scolded, and did not dare to turn back and push the cart, so far, the first wave of the Yue Wang army's offensive has not yet begun, it has been forced to stop.

"Waste, tell Gan Zhuangwu, don't be afraid of losing your troops, and then go up and fill the moat!"

Li Zhenzheng smiled proudly, and when he saw that his river-filling troops were defeated like this, his face turned unpleasant, and he waved his hand coldly, and gave the order to die with hatred.

Attack, attack again! Li Zhen has given the order to die, Gan Zhuangwu did not dare to slack off, ordered to kill more than a dozen people who escaped the fastest people, drank the order to supervise the team to wave the knife forward, escorted the river reclamation troops rushed forward again, unexpectedly was looted by the defenders' arrow rain, Rao is the two cavalry sent by him to suppress the desperate suppression, but also difficult to stop the city's dense arrow rain beckoning, under the heavy casualties, the offensive was forced to stop again, but the ruthless Gan Zhuangwu refused to rest, simply sent the shield knife and the archers each a thousand people, Together with the cavalry to cover the march of the river-filling troops, but they were met with the fierce greetings of the trebuchets at the head of the city, and after losing most of the troops, they finally filled in more than a dozen earthen embankments on the moat at the cost of human lives, opening a way close to the city wall for the attack of the ladder troops.

"All the troops are attacking!"

Seeing that the embankment on the moat had been completed, Gan Zhuangwu couldn't care about his own heavy losses, he pulled out the horizontal knife on his waist, slashed forward, and shouted and gave the order to attack, but when he heard a burst of passionate drums, three thousand foot soldiers escorted ten siege ladders and more than 20 ladders and rushed towards the direction of the moat.

"Prepare for each battle position, target: enemy siege brigade, put!"

The trebuchet of the defenders has already defeated the stubborn resistance of the trebuchet troops of the Yue Wang army at this time, although it has paid a lot of price, but there are nearly 100 trebuchets of various types are still intact, at this time, as soon as he saw that Gan Zhuangwu's troops began to attack, Fang Xiaoshan did not dare to be careless, and roared and issued an order to counterattack, but listening to the sound of the machine spring, a dense stone bullet rose into the air again, unceremoniously smashed into the galloping Yue Wang army brigade, more than 100 foot soldiers were immediately smashed into mud by huge stone bullets, The rest of the people did not hesitate to bow their heads and rush forward, and soon they rushed down the embankment of the moat to the bottom of the city, first erected ladders one by one, and turned over to the city head vigorously, and at the same time, ten extremely heavy siege ladders were also pushed by the people, and slowly drove to a place not far from the moat, and the most tragic offensive and defensive battles came to the time when the swords were red......